The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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